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- <h2>Lisps, Assembly, C, and Conlangs</h2>
- <p>I had originally hoped to do more blogging as a way of practicing my
- writing and an incentive to do more hobby programming. The intent was
- never to make this site solely programming, I had actually a few scrapped
- posts about baking and guitar that just didn&#39;t get anywhere... but
- that being said I did have a fair amount of hobbying in 2019 that I can
- share some unfiltered, semi-structured thoughts on.</p>
- <h3>Racket, 80x86, and even more C</h3>
- <h4>Racket</h4>
- <p><a target="_blank"
- href="https://racket-lang.org">Racket</a> is a general-purpose
- lisp-like language. I had began messing around in it with the
- intention of creating a similar language to <a target="_blank"
- href="https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/">Scribble</a> a document
- authoring language written in Racket. I made <a target="_blank"
- href="https://xkcd.com/1205/">the classic mistake</a> of trying to
- create a productivity tool rather than just do the task I had
- originally intended to do. It was interesting messing around in a
- lisp/functional language which I haven&#39;t really used in a long
- time. I wish I had more insightful things to say about it or project
- to share. Either way its very worth the look.</p>
- <h4>6502 -&gt; 80x86 -&gt; Commander X16</h4>
- <p>I wanted to play around with writing some assembly language programs.
- I looked back at the NES tutorials and tried writing some basic
- hello-world programs for it, but never really came out with anything
- worth while. I booted up dosbox and tried experimenting in some DOS
- programming to get a kick of nostalgia. On my way over to a friends
- apartment I stumbled across an 80x86 reference book which I took home and
- dug into. I made some decent progress in, relative to my 6502 learning.
- But this was in the summer, and I was preparing for what would turn into
- a pretty time consuming move. After my move, my puppy, and some youtube,
- <a target="_blank"
- href="http://www.the8bitguy.com">The 8-Bit Guy</a> made a video about
- his 8 Bit computer project <a target="_blank"
- href="http://www.commanderx16.com/X16/Ready.html">Commander X16</a>
- which I started looking into. Like all the other assembly language
- projects they never amounted to more than a few print statements or
- colors on the screen. But X16 is something I am going to keep an eye
- on in 2020.<br>
- <a target="_blank"
- href="https://eater.net/">Ben Eater</a> also started a <a target=
- "_blank"
- href="https://eater.net/6502">6502 video series</a> which was amazing,
- and thankfully my learnings from earlier in the year made the content
- very understandable. In summary, I spent a lot of 2019 reading and
- watching a lot of content about assembly language programming, but
- never really did anything with it.</p>
- <h4>Never ending C</h4>
- <p>Without much to really say on the topic, I kept writing small programs
- in C throughout the year. I spent a lot of time debugging and
- troubleshooting a prefix terminal calculator with the intention of making
- it a full utility to use on the command line / from within scripts. You
- could do simple math without opening up x-calc, which I find myself doing
- to check some quick math. Example code: <code class="inline">calc &quot;+
- 1 1&quot;</code>. To me this was far cleaner than writing: <code class=
- 'inline'>echo $((1+1))</code>. The big ideas I had for it was adding a
- REPL and making it a command line calculator tool where you could get the
- features of a standard calculator with store and recall functions. This
- project involved making two stacks: the operations and the numbers.
- Implementing two stacks from scratch was interesting and I may upload the
- source and link it in an update. Overall it was full of breaks, bugs,
- wrong turns, and bizarre memory issues. So needless to say it was a fun 3
- days of programming.</p>
- <h3>Non Programming Writing</h3>
- <p>The project that soaked up a majority of my writing time, which sadly
- should&#39;ve been documented here, was my conlang / world-building
- project &quot;Tyur&quot;. This project spawned out of sci-fi story ideas
- that, of course, never went anywhere (due to my poor dialog writing, and
- writing in general) and my interest in language history. I have been
- reading <a target="_blank"
- href=
- "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1831667.The_Horse_the_Wheel_and_Language">
- The Horse the Wheel and Language</a> by David W. Anthony, which goes into
- the history around Proto-Indo-European. It can be a bit dense so I had
- been reading it on and off, and during the off times also started
- <a target="_blank"
- href=
- "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18635317-the-origins-of-language">The
- Origins of Language: A Slim Guide</a> by James R. Hurford, which tries
- to provide insights on the evolutionary concept of language. Both of
- these provided some fodder for the idea of creating my own <a target=
- "_blank"
- href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language">conlang</a>.
- My conlang is &quot;Tyur&quot; the language spoken by the Tyur people.
- This process has really been a mix of world-building around the Tyur
- and some fun fantasy mini story ideas similar to The Lord of the Rings
- and old Warhammer Fantasy worlds. This however began my adventure down
- the rabbit hole of trying to figure out how to create a font so I can
- write more here about it. The documentation on this conlang is a mix
- of loose-leaf folded in my bag that I scribble on when I get an idea.
- So figuring out a proper way of building the alphabet and some root
- words to start a dictionary are my current goals for the remainder of
- the year/ start of 2020.</p>
- <h3>Closing</h3>
- <p>In closing, I think despite not writing much here, I messed around
- with some interesting languages this year, and hope I can hobby more in
- 2020.</p>
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